Ricco Lane, Ross Barker and Craig Britt won the Champagne Triples for 2024 in a thriller over Rob Hill, Dave Howell and Will Russell.
The annual Champagne Triples Tournament was played over the weekend, with 120 bowlers from across the state and the ACT, it was a genuine field of quality bowlers.
Friday night saw the Calcutta raise around $7,000 in interest, with first place taking a massive $3,700. We would like to thank Donny Hayden and Mark Barrow for their amazing job in carrying out the auctions.
All the bowling action kicked off on Saturday morning, with the first three rounds being played Saturday, before we carried out the Spider which was won by local legend Mick Furney and the Corner to Corner which was won by the very talented Warren Towney.
Sunday saw the final two rounds played before we headed into the top eight shootouts. Where the top four played off for the big money and fifth through eighth played for the minor money.
In the first round of the finals. Ray Griffith was defeated by Ricco Lane, Baldy Frame was defeated by Will Russell, Brad Barrow was defeated by Josh Walker-Davis and Nathan Collis was defeated by Jake Brown.
Leaving Ricco Lane to play Will Russell for top honours, Ray Griffith to play Baldy Frame for third and fourth, Jake Brown to play Josh Walker-Davis for fifth and sixth placings and Nathan Collis and Brad Barrow sharing seventh place.
The main final was an absolute thriller with all players playing some absolute bombs, even going to an extra end to keep all the spectators entertained. In the end it came down to some Ricco Lane magic to secure the win againgst new local hero Rob Hill, who is extremely new to bowls but has shown some great potential and bowled amazing in the final, well done Rob.
Thanks to everyone involved.